POMONA - The city that already has the most murders in the Inland Valley also holds another distinction: A bad record on solving homicides.
While Pomona has experienced far more killings during the past six years than other local cities of similar size - including Fontana, Ontario and Corona - the Pomona Police Department has closed only 44 percent of its murder cases.

The majority of the open homicide cases are considered gang-related, which are the hardest cases to solve because of the difficulty in locating cooperative witnesses, police said.
"We're talking about so many of the homicides being gang-related, and they're unsolved and gang-related, it's a direct correlation to the